Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun] [adv] on " in BNC.

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1 We see her so with Theseus again on a near-contemporary Attic cup ( fig. 98 ) ; and it is presumably in the same role that she dominates the latest and best preserved of all archaic pediments , at the two ends of a temple on Aegina , dedicated to Aphaia , a local deity associated with Artemis rather than Athena .
2 In the event the allied offensive began less than 19 hours after midnight in New York , shortly before midnight GMT on Jan. 16 .
3 The offensive by the US-led allied forces , codenamed " Operation Desert Storm " , began just before midnight GMT on Jan. 16 .
4 The work is founded on the principle that each of the dead should be commemorated individually by name either on the headstone on the grave or by an inscription on a memorial .
5 I met a scum fan on the bus home from town late on Saturday night who was trying to tell me in a very loud voice that Strachan was now ‘ past it ’ and ‘ knackered ’ .
6 In the mid 1970s there was an abortive attempt to develop a new way of managing the industry in the Territories Plan ( which would have given a structure very similar to that developed in Germany in much earlier years and still in use both on DB and DR ) , but this failed largely on account of union opposition .
7 Well er the sheep they were usually only the ewes , when they the lamb so they were usually on tethers just on bits of grass .
8 But the two sides were still at loggerheads yesterday on the details of expanded , voluntary limits on EC steel exports to the US , to replace five-year-old quotas which expired on Saturday .
9 I 'm sure you 'd be far more at home somewhere on the high seas with a scarf around your head and a cutlass at your belt . ’
10 He was a young lad and he used to go out Wednesdays and do the other rounds and then she used to go out Fridays and do down the Piste and Barway and come back and then up to Dowfield , then home again and she 'd be home by lunchtime then on a Friday .
11 The officer was the passenger in a Rover patrol car travelling at 70mph while responding to a call about a stolen Nissan 200 ZX Turbo being driven fast and erratically in Sunderland late on Wednesday .
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